On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:16:17AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > - struct list_head i_list; /* backing dev IO list */ > > + struct list_head i_io; /* backing dev IO list */ > > + struct list_head i_lru; /* backing dev IO list */ > > a) that pair of comments would be disqualified in IOCCC ;-) Oops. > b) have a pity on folks who will have to talk about the code. I mean, > how would you say that? Ai-Ai-Oh? Fair call. How about i_wb_list? > > +extern struct percpu_counter nr_inodes; > > +extern struct percpu_counter nr_inodes_unused; > > Ehh... At least take that to fs/internal.h. Preferably don't expose at > all. That get's cleaned up later with helpers. As Christoph suggested, I need to move the helpers forward in the series. > > > - list_del(&inode->i_list); > > - list_add(&inode->i_list, &bdi->wb.b_dirty); > > + list_del(&inode->i_io); > > + list_add(&inode->i_io, &bdi->wb.b_dirty); > > list_move()? Ditto for the next few. And, while that's not directed > at you, this kind of loops is Not Nice(tm)... Not a great fan of them myself, but Christoph pointed out that the inode <-> bdi fix of his that just landed in mainline should remove the need for these loops. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html